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Korea

South Korea urges the world to put pressure on Pyongyang in wake of nuclear test

South Korea has called on the world to pressure Pyongyang into giving up its nuclear programme.

Iran

Work to begin on second nuclear reactor in Iran

The first stone was laid on Saturday marking the start of the launch of the Iran-Russia Bushehr 2 project.

Focus

Kazakhstan: striving for nuclear disarmament

1.5 million people in Kazakhstan bear scars and deformities from years of nuclear testing but now something is being done about it

Business Series

Fresh doubt over Hinkley Point nuclear power project

The British government has cast doubt on plans to build the UK's first new nuclear plant in decades with French utility firm EDF by ordering a review of the project.

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Business Series

EDF approves controversial Hinkley Point nuclear reactors, UK government delays with inquiry

French energy firm EDF has given the go ahead for Britain's first new nuclear plant in decades despite warnings the project could bankrupt it, but the UK government has ordered an inquiry.

France

French nuclear workers vote to join strike against labour laws

Staff at France’s 19 nuclear plants have voted to go on strike on Thursday amid escalating protests against labour reforms.

Canada

The nuclear waste site at the heart of Canada's wildfires

North Korea

North Korea says it continues to develop its nuclear weapons capability

Seoul dismisses the suggestion of military talks from Pyongang as "meaningless" amid speculation about a fifth nuclear test.

France

Probe indicates falsified documents in Flamanville nuclear plant construction

The investigation launched after the discovery of “anomalies” in the structure of the Flamanville nuclear plant in France have revealed

Georgia

Georgia foils plot to sell radioactive uranium

Experts say more work is needed on the nuclear security agenda

World News

Chernobyl nuclear disaster remembered

Thirty years ago, on April 26 a catastrophic nuclear accident occurred at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine. An explosion and

Ukraine

Chernobyl: thirty years on, health issues remain

Thirty years after one of the world's worst nuclear disasters, fears over radiation contamination at Chernobyl have not gone away.

Ukraine

Chernobyl thirty years on

On April 26, 1986 a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine exploded, causing an environmental disaster never before seen. Acute

My Europe Series

European nuclear energy post-Chernobyl

Three decades after Chernobyl, how safe is nuclear energy in Europe?

My Europe Series

Life in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

A visit to the ghost town of Pripyat, Ukraine reveals what life is like three decades after the nuclear disaster.

My Europe Series

Radiation continues to ‘muddy the waters’ in the Sea of Kyiv

Contaminated components can be found in the mud of the northern part of the artificial lake.

My Europe Series

A Ukrainian nuclear power plant and the containment of a disaster

Zaporizhia was built at the same time as Chernobyl, with Soviet-era reactors.

My Europe Series

Safety fears surround the world's oldest atomic power plant

Do you want to “hijack” a nuclear power plant? Ask Leo Scherer, he tried… After September 11th (9/11) Leo devised a secret operation to show the

World News

The silent screams of Pripyat, 30 years on

It’s the silence that strikes one the most in Pripyat when you see the artifacts that once formed part of thousands of everyday human routines

USA

Obama urges world leaders to secure nuclear facilities from terror threat

At the end of the nuclear summit in Washington, the US president called for world leaders to share intelligence and secure nuclear materials